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  1. Darren OD on

    Can see us plodding on with Nancy till the end of season as he will make some of his own signings in January. Once we lose the league I can see Dermot getting someone like Robbie Keane in whole club is a mess from top to bottom.

  5. Burnley78 on

    PLB

     

     

    Enjoy your day. You have waited 20 years for this.

     

     

    Don’t let your bitterness eat you up too much though it really isn’t a good thing.

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  8. Burnley78 on

    Really glad to see the sentiment on here (at least) is supportive of a guy 2 weeks into a job in a toxic environment with no proper tools to do the job and under the most insane public scrutiny.

     

     

    That restores faith in human nature and decency in these weird times.

     

     

    Last nights performance by those lucky enough to get tickets at the Celtic end was indeed a rubicon crossed as one of our best posters suggested.

  9. Burnley78 on

    I hasten to add the manager suffered 2 really poor offside calls and a blatantly biased linesman in both league games.

     

     

    Likewise if strikers had done their jobs in both league games we would have been out of sight by half time.

  10. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    vale bhoy on 18th December 2025 8:30 am

     

     

    before BR, we had 10,000 empty seats with that cringe-worthy ‘a club like no other’ banner’.

     

     

    ——-

     

     

    Yes we did, Vale Bhoy.

     

     

    You are factually correct.

     

     

    And before that, for 15 years, we had a packed Celtic Park that was rocking.

     

     

    Those 10,000 empty seasons coincided with an entity calling itself Rangers NOT being in the top league.

     

     

    I can’t say 100%, no one can … what the cause was.

     

     

    But I’ll stick with the guess I’ve always had.

     

     

    Up to 9,000 so called supporters simply walked away from Celtic because the blue bogeyman wasn’t there to complete their experience.

     

     

    From that I conclude they are more a supporter of the O** F*** supporters than they are Celtic supporters.

     

     

    Which is fine.

     

     

    Free country.

  11. dessybhoy on

    We are as strong as a box of eggs at the back and are out numbered regularly in transition, that is why we’re losing goals to every team we play in multiples.

     

    Rubicons are a matter of opinion was a rubicon crossed in the 90s when Celts for Change advocated boycotts to get the Kelly’s and Whites out?

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  13. lucky cody on

    Auldheid,

     

     

    Great to hear your news. Pity Celtic can’t cheer you up more.

     

     

    Good luck !

  14. Bhoys Town on

    We all remember the days when we knew Celtic had to go 3 up early because the defence would fold. This is where we are. People saying the first half showed hopeful signs are living in dreamland. We were up against an appallingly weak team and let them totally boss and dominate the second half until they took the lead. Then they knew they could sit back and put their feet up as did Hearts, Roma and St Mirren. As soon as we conceded a goal, any hope of reviving the fast attacking football disappeared and the players once again looked bemused by the game plan – if there was one.

     

     

    This guy will waste money in January, the shape will stay the same, his emotional fragility will continue to sap the team’s spirit and we will lose the league. This is a league we should never lose with the players we have. I feel sick to the stomach that something so utterly avoidable will be allowed to unfold.

     

     

    I don’t like the personal abuse from the fans, but the message must be delivered. This guy has to go and go now.

  15. David66 on

    Good morning all.

     

     

    Long time no post.

     

     

    Since I have been away from this wonderful place our board have continued to drag our club into the depths of their good friends in Govan, by banning celtic supporters, talking to celtic supporters in a condescending, unbefitting and unbelievable manner at an AGM, cancelling said AGM, then banning the Celtic supporters group (celtic collective) from press conferences where the fans can ask questions. Our board have held us back so much that we are now in a Kelly/White era, where they have forgotten what our club was formed for.

     

     

    WE ARE A SHAMBLES OF A CLUB.

     

     

    Oh and I have lost 9 stone.

     

     

    Oh and I see the board placemen are still on here spouting pash.

     

     

    This latest incumbent to the managers role is way out his depth and we will bumble on until March with this poor cnut until the board decide…oh let’s meet and do something..

     

     

    Anyway must dash

     

     

    Later all

     

     

    D :)

  17. Celtic Mac on

    I think it is fair to say that, once Brendan got his sandshoes on, Celtic conjured up a solution to his leaving not by a considered approach, but via a telephone call from Dermot Desmond to a coffeeshop on the Kings Road , which found Martin O’Neill at the other end of the phone. Think Martin had been working @ TalkSport earlier that morning in the company of big fan Jim White. Had Martin been offered the job as the club’s yuletide Santa Claus he would still have jumped at the chance, thinking…it’s Christmas comes early. None of us knew just how good a coaching team would be formed with Shaun, Gavin and Mick in situ and Mark Fotheringham drafted in, but no one can deny they were meeting our relatively short term goals. And therein lies the paradox, any new manager would be replacing a coaching team that was getting more out of more players, and more importantly, achieving key results, in the LC, the EL and the SPL. Fair to say the new man is not. And not just that Martin had re-energised the players, he was seen by the supporters as ‘one of us’ while on good terms with the Board. Not an easy task. Shame to have cut that short when, as we now know, Martin and his relatively young coaching team would not have thought twice about staying on at Celtic

     

    And so it goes.

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  20. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    The chants we heard are a symptom, not the cause. They are the direct result of the system currently in place.

     

     

    To blame the supporters—those who chanted ‘sack the board’ and ‘Nancy GTF’—is the finest form of straw-clutching. It’s a transparent attempt to seize the moral high ground, to pontificate from on high, and to deflect from the real issues. It won’t wash.

     

     

    Those people bought their tickets. They travelled to Dundee. And what did they witness? A sub-par manager and a sub-par team on the park. They pay through the nose for the privilege; they have every right to voice their fury.

     

     

    Pistol Pete is gone. Deal with it. The slippery characters creeping through these forums, looking for a scapegoat and attempting to pin this shitshow on the fans, are all well-known. They seem to have skipped the first stage of grief and leapt straight into the blame phase.

     

     

    The club’s memo last night was transparent. Your deflective attempts here are equally transparent, and just as hollow.

     

     

    This is only the beginning. The decks need to be cleared.

     

    And cleared they will be.

  21. BigChipsUK on

    Back To Basics, I had a wee look at the list of Scottish Champions on Wikipedia last night, and from summer 1922 up to the first of Jock Stein’s 9iar in 1966, Celtic won just 4 titles in 43 years! How times have changed.

     

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_football_champions

     

     

    As you say, next up is Aberdeen, who have the equal best record (points won) in the SPL over the last 6 games. It will be no walk in the park. Then it’s plastic fantastic and then Motherwell away. The malaise may not be over yet.

     

     

    If ever our Bhoys needed supporting, they do NOW. And by definition supporters support, so let’s do so. By contrast fan(atic)s are fanatical, and in times such as these they get wound up into a frenzy like whirling Dervishes, which serves only to increase players’ anxieties, lower confidence, and heighten the disconnect which does nothing to help improve the situation.

     

     

    It’s time to stand united, cut out the noise and disharmony and overcome. After all, win our game in hand and we’re still only 3 points off the top of the league. It’s still there to be won!

  22. EKBhoy on

    Auldheid

     

     

    Well done fella on your news , always enjoy your contributions over many years.

     

     

    HH

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  25. celticbob on

    Burnley78

     

    Likewise if strikers had done their jobs in both league games we would have been out of sight by half time.

     

     

    I said the exact same mate at half time, You know why we didn’t convert those chances? Because the striker we have is nowhere near good enough for Celtic. The guy we got on a FREE at the last minute is better but he is not fit. What grinds my gears? Supporters telling other supporters how to behave, feel or what to chant. What we need now is a Celtic code of conduct. Sign up to it before you go into a game,

     

    There were a couple of thousand like that in the 90s but there were tens of thousands more that could see the writing on the wall. And, you know what happened after that change our club moved forward and it will again.

     

    Remember, no quality strikers at the club and we are sitting on circa £80m.

  26. EKBhoy on

    MAOLMUIRE O MUIRGHEASA on 18TH DECEMBER 2025 9:37 AM

     

     

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    I total disagree.

     

     

    The morons shouting Nancy GTF should head their own advice , outrageous for Celtic fans to plumb to these depths , it was the same with WGS and Fergus. A black day for the reputation of the support.

     

     

    Trawling the newspaper’s see that Pete had his address published on the internet , it would be interesting to hear the morons excuse for that one.

     

     

    On the football front we need a more robust and defensive minded midfield especially at wing back to provide cover for the defence; it’s as simple as that to block a high press. Another competent centre half ( preferably two) are needed to shore up the back, freeing Kieran up to wing back.

     

     

    Surelyweveenoughinthetanktogubthesheepcfc

  27. bognorbhoy on

    As petec used to say on here ” I’m backing us to score 5 in the first half ” well some game soonish it’ll happen , but we’ll probably concede 7 in the second half …😵

  28. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    This Xmas Mute Mikey will be writing a handover note to his soon-to-be successor rather than Santa…

     

     

    Dear Mr Desmond’s new flunky,

     

     

    A few words of advice on how to hold on to your £850K a year sinecure:

     

     

    1. Extract as much money as you can from the peasants funding the club. Selling false hope as jam tomorrow has always worked for me and big Pistol… until now… Market at least 6 strips a year (maybe a Glasgow Cup special edition?) and slowly chip away at the season book offer and hope they don’t notice.

     

     

    2. Uncritically carry out Mr Desmond’s instructions, no matter how deranged.

     

     

    3. Asset-stripping is the name of the game. Sell anything of value and replace with cheap shite wherever possible.

     

     

    4. Gaslighting is key. Black is always white, white is always black.

     

     

    5. Only speak when you really have to. Maybe once every couple of years and only then for 3 mins reading an autocue whilst being ‘interviewed’ by Gerry McCulloch.

     

     

    6. When you do speak make sure to speak down to the peasants. Attack them for being uncouth, ignorant and unworthy of you and your chums. Make sure they know their place. I find demeaning your ‘customer base’ at every opportunity to be a sound business strategy.

     

     

    7. Whatever you do ensure the stadium is like a morgue on matchdays. Ban anyone capable of creating an atmosphere. They will only use it to attack you for being superior to them.

     

     

    8. Mobilise plants on CQN and in the media to attack the Celtic fans. Attacking is what Celtic are famous for after all. At least that’s what I was told by my rugby teacher at St Aloysius. If you need to, employ a PR firm to attack the fans. Spare no expense as anything less will prove a false economy.

     

     

    9. Talking of firms, take care of our Old Firm chums over at Ibrox. Some of the many idiots in our support say Rangers died in 2012 but Mr Desmond and big Pistol would never allow that to happen. As far as we’re concerned Rangers is a “great club” and a worthy business partner – sorry rival, for our sorry lot.

     

     

    10. And whatever you do, make sure never to broach our self-imposed glass ceiling. Even if that means intentionally blowing up a couple of seasons every decade to allow our chums at Ibrox to satisfy their own mob of ingrates by winning the league. I’ve always found the glass ceiling a very comfortable place to reside and kick my feet up whilst the money continues to roll in.

     

     

    So in finishing, I wish you bonne chance mon ami. If you abide by the above you’ll be golden. Worry not about me. I’ve got a few quid in the bank and Mr Desmond is looking to secure a cosy wee number at UEFA where I’ll get to speak even less. In the meantime I’m heading back to the rugby club for a nice little G&T.

     

     

    PS we store the tarpaulin for the top tier in the boot of big Pistol’s limo. He’ll give you the keys.

  29. mursheen on

    EKboy,

     

     

    did you go up to dundee last night on a miserable winters night to support your team and maybe spend around £100 for privilege, at a time when money is tight, not to get back home around 1am and then get up for work in the morning?

     

     

    i found the chants as worrying (and distressing) as you but “you pay your money….”

     

     

    Peter Lawell held the whole celtic support in absolute contempt,as do the other directors still in situ. the timing of his so called departure tells you everything.

     

     

    i am disgusted at the way we have been cheated by referees and held to a different standard without one word emanating from the club, time after time after time. We would not accept in the workplace or ANYWHERE else, but suck it up because we are celtic supporters and the board know better?

     

     

    i also have a dread in my heart that this whole debacle is being managed as a downsizing plan by management.

     

     

    Surelyweveenoughinthetanktogubthesheepcfc?? same as dundee utd,st mirren and hearts????

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  31. EKBhoy on

    MURSHEEN on 18TH DECEMBER 2025 10:19 AM

     

     

    i also have a dread in my heart that this whole debacle is being managed as a downsizing plan by management.

     

     

    ………

     

     

    Your last comment assumes the Directors of the club are actively conspiring to do what , get worse , honestly this is complete claptrap.

     

     

    Let’s just leave it at that , jeezo

     

     

    HH

  33. The Battered Bunnet on

    I’d love to have something salient to say this morning, but it’s a bonfire, isn’t it.

     

     

    Looking at last night in isolation, we went into the match having conceded goals from corners in three successive matches.

     

     

    The reaction? We dropped Scales, our best and perhaps only competent aerial defender and played Ralston and Tierney either side of Trusty. Two typical sized full backs as centre backs in yet another all new defence.

     

     

    Note: The AVERAGE height of the Dundee Utd team is 6’2″.

     

     

    We lost both goals from the second phase of corner kicks.

     

     

    That alone suggests a fundamental lacking on the part of the manager. Sorry.

     

     

    It remains inexplicable that we have no strikers at the club bar the quality but perma-injured Iheanacho. That at least makes it somewhat explicable that we failed to score with the number of high probability chances we created. That’s not on Nancy.

     

     

    What is on him is the aptness to play players in new positions in new systems in every match. It works for the first 30 minutes or so of each game until the opposition works it out then… we lose.

     

     

    And we lose meekly. Last night we went a goal behind in the 61st minute – there was more than half an hour to play yet the manager after the match stated repeatedly that we lost the match in 3 minutes. No, we lost the goals in three minutes. We lost the match before we got off the bus.

     

     

    Against St Mirren we went a goal behind after 64 minutes. Against Hearts we lost the second goal on 64 minutes. On each occasion we were unable to recover from what are ordinary course setbacks. The manager doesn’t seem to know what to do when we lose a goal.

     

     

    And he doesn’t seem to know what to do when we lose a match. There seems to be no learning from mistakes, and Lord knows there are plenty of mistakes to learn from. Man to man marking at corners? Who came up with that throwback? Luke McCowan as wing back? Gulp. Repeat. Maeda in any position except the one he’s good at? Absolutely, try this one today, Daizen. And so on, and so on.

     

     

    Roll up! Roll up! It’s an endless season of clown shows. Football as slapstick.

     

     

    And the producers watch on: Our Head of Football Operations whose role is so secret no one knows what on earth he does; Our CEO who’s in the wrong role in the wrong show.

     

     

    Who wrote this script? It’s compelling viewing for everyone except those of us who pay to watch it.

     

     

    Tune in on Sunday for another episode of WTAF.

  34. spikeysauldman on

    EKBhoy

     

     

    maybe even just freeing KT….

     

     

    and we definitely do not have enough in the tank to beat never mind gub the sheep

     

     

    A draw will be WN’s first non-defeat and it might not happen this year

     

     

    will i turn up sunday – yes

     

     

    will i boo the team ? never have – during or after a game

     

     

    will i boo the board – nope – not during the game – but feck all this united front bs – they have to be replaced asap

     

     

    the only unity right now should be between the team and the support

     

     

    this board are far worse in their attitude to the support than the whites or kellys ever were – they deserve no support, no time and no leeway

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  38. the long wait is over on

    CLUNKS on 18TH DECEMBER 2025 10:29 AM

     

     

    On a bit of reflection, do you not feel we can do better than that, no matter how much you might want him to go?

     

     

    Guy’s a human being as much as you or I are and , whatever his failings may be, is currently the Celtic manager and , even if wildly out of his depth, doing what he can.

     

     

    Shameful post.

  39. bournesouprecipe on

    Auldheid

     

     

    Marvellous all clear you don’t look 79 must be the EK air and Ginger Beer.

     

     

    Best B 👍

  41. vale bhoy on

    Back to Basics – Glass Half Full

     

     

    I’m not disputing anything you say but, I think we might need that waiting list.

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  43. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    Dunfermline play Ayr on Saturday, maybe big Pete could loiter around the showers at full time. . . . .

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